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By Hope Wolf (editor)

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9781472427946 | Routledge, March 9, 2016, cover price $145.00

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9783110437591, titled "Erzählen Im Raum: Die Erzeugung Virtueller Räume Im Erzählakt Höfischer Epik" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 16, 2015, cover price $140.00

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Product Description: Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places...read more

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9780812246780 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination.

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Product Description: Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general...read more

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9781137489791 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 9, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Edward W.

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9780230110212 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2011, cover price $110.00

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9781137479945 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 8, 2015), cover price $32.00

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Product Description: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying...read more

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9781107008359 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 15, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600.

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9781107463301 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2014), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600.

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Product Description: In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices...read more

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9780230120808 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2011), cover price $105.00

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9781137471109 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 23, 2014), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places.

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Product Description: Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations, enclosures and boundaries...read more

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9780415727525 | Routledge, April 28, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions.

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Product Description: Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives? Why is it a resonant space? Why is it so urgently the place of writing – the place where one may remain, avoid speaking or naming, yet speak from? Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, this book addresses these questions and speaks to the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art...read more
By Subha Mukherji (editor)

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9780857286659 | Anthem Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives?

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9781783080731 | Anthem Pr, November 15, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives?

By Julia Weber (editor)

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9783110275735, titled "Die Räume Der Literatur: Exemplarische Zugänge Zu Kafkas Erzählung "Der Bau"" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 17, 2013, cover price $168.00

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Product Description: This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations. A team of international scholars engages in an interdisciplinary discussion about how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historical and cultural dynamics of geography...read more
By Ioannis Ziogas (editor)

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9783110314731 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, January 30, 2014, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations.

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Product Description: This book consists of translations of fourteen Japanese short stories from the experiment modernist tradition by both canonical writers and important authors who have received little or no attention in English. The intent of the collection is to add to t
By Angela Yiu (editor)

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9780824836627 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, July 31, 2013, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Haunting representations of time and space constitute the Japanese modernist landscape depicted in this volume of 14 stories from the 1910s to the 1930s.

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9780824838010 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, July 31, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This book consists of translations of fourteen Japanese short stories from the experiment modernist tradition by both canonical writers and important authors who have received little or no attention in English.

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Product Description: Early in the twentieth century, many novelists and geographers were attempting a similar undertaking: to connect everyday human experience to the large, unseen structures that formed the planet itself. World Views shows how both modernist and postcolonial writers borrowed metaphors and concepts from geography, advancing theories of space, culture, and community within the formal structures of literary narrative...read more

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9780199796106 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 12, 2012, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Early in the twentieth century, many novelists and geographers were attempting a similar undertaking: to connect everyday human experience to the large, unseen structures that formed the planet itself.

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Product Description: With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture...read more
By Sara Upstone (editor)

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9780230252257 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.

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Product Description: Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays...read more

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9781409428275 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays.

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Product Description: In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary historians as well as by theorists/historians of space, that is, the constitutive interrelationship of space and emotions...read more
By Stephanie Siewert (editor)

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9783631606179 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 19, 2011, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism.

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Product Description: Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context...read more

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9781107003347 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research.

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Product Description: Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces―jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs―played in the literary and social production of British India. Author Alan Johnson illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India...read more

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9780824834838 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, March 18, 2011, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces―jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs―played in the literary and social production of British India.

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9780824835217 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces―jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs―played in the literary and social production of British India.

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Product Description: The early twenty-first century is witnessing a paradigm shift across the humanities away from an obsession with language and towards an engagement with the way in which physical space is imagined. This book showcases the impact of that shift upon the work of diverse disciplines...read more

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9783034301923 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 18, 2011, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: The early twenty-first century is witnessing a paradigm shift across the humanities away from an obsession with language and towards an engagement with the way in which physical space is imagined.

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